If he is convicted of the murders of four University of Idaho students last November, former Monroe County resident Bryan Kohberger could become the first to be executed under Idaho’s recently passed .
Gov. Josh Shapiro says he won't allow Pennsylvania to execute any inmates while he is in office and called for state lawmakers to repeal the death penalty.
Gov. Josh Shapiro said he will not sign execution warrants while in office and called on state lawmakers to pen legislation that would abolish the death penalty in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania only has executed three people since the Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1976. The last, Gary Heidnik, was executed via lethal injection in 1999.
MANGINO: Commonwealths unite in disdain for capital punishment By Matthew T. Mangino
This week, the Commonwealth of Virginia officially abolished the death penalty, making it the first Southern state to ban capital punishment.
“Justice and punishment are not always the same thing, that is too clearly evident in 400 years of the death penalty in Virginia,” Gov. Ralph Northam said during remarks ahead of signing the legislation, saying that it is both the right and the moral thing to do.
While Virginia has now become the first state of the former Confederacy to ban the death penalty, it is the 23rd state overall, following Colorado last year.
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